(pseudonym of Lo Ch'ing-che, Hunan, 1948) read English at Fu Jan Catholic University and in 1972 went to the USA to study comparative science of literature at Washington University.

By the time Lo Ch'ing commenced his career as a poet, the existentialistic-surrealistic school which had dominated Taiwan's poetry in the Ô60s came to a close. Its poems were full of images as well as paradoxes which often tended to be incomprehensible. The emphasis was on creating individual lines or images without context, at the expense of structure and theme.

The younger generation of poets countered this approach to poetry in a remarkable way. Lo Ch'ing's poetry contains very few images, has a calculated structure with the emphasis on themes and is not ambitious in its use of language - most unnerving to the `traditional modernists'. His style seems `unpoetic' to any reader used to the technical excesses of the old school of modernists. Yet, Lo Ch'ing is by no means an uninspired poet dealing with negative powers. The seeming simplicity of his poems hides the fact that they are extremely subtle. Their originality has more to do with the idea than with the image, and their tension is not created by individual, separate expressions but by the poem as a whole.